“the track is a fun and catchy blend of the All-Stars’ Balkan/Turkish grooves with some wistful Persian fiddling and, towards the end, a lush orchestral platform for composer Ismail Lumanovski’s swirling clarinet.”
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“…the playing of this young trio, both precise and evocative, promises much for the future, as does their originality of mind.”
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“The recording vividly evokes a particular time in French cultural history and invites the listener to vicariously partake of it”
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After months of lockdown, the word “home” has accrued all sorts of new connotations, but it has always signified different things depending on the circumstances…the inspiration for these songs, of which Gaissert proves an impassioned interpreter, was her family’s move to a new home after fifteen years.
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Curtis continues to bring a voice of color into the world of instruments, and he shows no signs of slowing down his pace at all.
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Curtis Stewart’s solo exercise Of Power is a tribute to the nauseating sensation of being haunted by those souvenirs.
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MERZ TRIO | INK | #2 Billboard Traditional Classical Chart
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“Stewart Goodyear is simply incapable of repeating himself. He is the complete musician: an imaginative composer who delivers an authentic, original sound unlike any other composer’s, and a technically and interpretatively larger than life artist.”
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“In keeping with Merz Trio’s creative programming style, the album’s unique structure intersperses the four movements of Ravel’s trio with new arrangements by the ensemble of works from Vincent Scotto channeled through Josephine Baker, Lili and Nadia Boulanger, Debussy….”
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“The disc offers a microcosm of where contemporary American music is today. Minimalism lingers in the background, but most of the pieces inhabit a lucid, economical, 21st century style that aims to communicate clearly”
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“strikingly colorful album as styles and languages blend into each other and boundaries dissolve”
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What I try to do is pose problems for people to solve conceptually as they're listening. So, the music itself is convincing enough to show that there can be electronics, hip hop, improvisation, and still be classical music. I've been trying to address this question and pose as many conceptual problems for people to solve in their own heads.
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We caught up with him on July 1 as the world of COVID slows down to talk about his life in music and his brand new 2021 CD Bright Shiny Things .. It is a post-classical coming of agency album inspired by #BLM featuring songs of resistance and resilience for violin, voice, and electronics ..
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“Stewart seems disarmingly honest in his deeply personal and frequently compelling poetry, singing, confessions, and lamentations.”
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..The trail this album blazes is one of the directions serious music is taking today in search of relevance for our time
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